Daughter of Fortune
By Isabel Allende
PQ 8098.1 .L54 H5513 1999
Allende takes you into this dirty, secretive world inhabited by immigrants to California during the Gold Rush with passionate characters whose stories pulse with life. You’ll be transported.
An excerpt:
“Jugglers, acrobats, snake charmers, transvestites, traveling musicians, magicians, and contortionists performed in the streets, while all around them seethed a commerce in silk, tea, jade, spices, gold, tortoiseshell, porcelain, ivory, and precious stones.”
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